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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Rev. H.U. Weitbrecht Stanton, Ph.D., D.D., Missionary in the Punjab, 1876-1911; Chief Reviser of the Urdu New Testament. [Booklet] An Outline of the Religion of Islam 52pp., 8vo, printed green wraps, chipped and sunned, contents good. It includes figures for Moslem populations. Scarce. COPAC lists copies at NLS, Trinity Dublin and Oxford.	Religion	£85.00
Thomas Wright [Prospectus of the Biographia Britannica Literaria WITH] An Essay on the State of Literature and Learning under the Anglo-Saxons; Introductory to the First Section of the Biographia Britanica Literaria of the Royal Society of Literature 4; [iv],112pp., 8vo, plain brown wraps (original?), worn and nearly detached, contents good. Inscribed on half-title: Presented to the Rt Honble the Lord Brougham & Vaux by his obedt Servt Wm. Tooke \| Russell Square 6 Augt 1839. Tooke was the major promoter of the Biographia Britannica...	Literature	£180.00
[Victorian Scottish silhouette portraits; Solomon Caesar Malan; Admiral Robert Wauchope; Gen. Sir John Slade;Maj. Montagu Hamilton Dowbiggin; Gen. Edward Bannerman Ramsay; Admiral Sir Houston Stewart] Notebook containing 56 silhouette portraits, mainly of Scots, cut from black card, with sitters including Solomon Caesar Malan, Admiral Robert Wauchope, General Sir John Slade, General Edward Bannerman Ramsay, Admiral Sir Houston Stewart. All the silhouettes are cut from black card, and all but one are head and shoulder portraits. 52 are laid down on the rectos of the 17 leaves of a landscape 8vo (23 x 14 cm.) notebook of Whatman paper, stitched with grey wraps. They range from two to eight silhouettes to a page, and with the...		£350.00
[T. G. Flowers; John Gellatly (1803-1856); G. Grierson, John Johnstone, engravers; T. and W. McDowall and John Menzies, publishers; Victorian views of Edinburgh; Scotland; Scottish engraving] Twelve original Victorian views of Edinburgh, steel-engravings for T. and W. McDowall by T. G. Flowers, G. Grierson, and John Johnstone. With one engraving of Loch Ness, engraved by John Gellatly from J. Ferguson for J. Menzies. The twelve McDowall engravings each on separate cards of shiny art paper, each 90 x 130 cm, and all but the card with the image of the Scott Memorial (see below) in landscape. The Menzies engraving of Loch Ness, in similar style to the others on shiny art paper, but slightly larger, at 90 x 140...	History, Social history	£280.00
Elias Magnus Fries, eminent mycologist Autograph Letter Signed "E Fries", in Latin, to C.B. Clarke, botanist and school inspector One page, 8vo, trimmed with no obvious loss, small closed tears and fold marks, text clear and complete. He congratulates Clarke on his work "Commelynaceae et Cyrtandraceae Bengalenses" published in 1874, with fulsome compliments. My Latin doesn't help me translate all of the second half of the...		£125.00
Lieutenant Albert Smith (1844-1928), RN [Royal Navy; Naval and Maritime; Collision of HMS Victoria with HMS Camperdown, 1893] Diaries of Lieutenant Albert Smith, RN, 1867-1897 and 1914 to 1919, describing tours of East Africa and the Mediterranean, and giving a first-hand account of the sinking of HMS Victoria following its collision with HMS Camperdown, 1893. Ten notebooks, nine of them 4to and the other folio, totalling in excess of a thousand pages. Not uniform. In original worn bindings, five with marbled boards and the others in full cloth. Internally all ten volumes are sound, with their texts neatly-written, clear and complete. Numbered 2 to 18...		£950.00
William Alexander and Robert Montgomery [David and Alexander Allan, Merchants in Glasgow, versus The Provost and Bailies of Rutherglen, in the House of Lords, 1801.] In the House of Lords. David and Alexander Allan, Merchants in Glasgow, Appellants. The Provost and Bailies of Rutherglen, and other Persons, Proprietors and Inhabitants of the Burgh of Rutherglen, Respondents. The Respondents' Case. Folio, 4 pp. Bifolium. On laid paper watermarked with the date 1800. Worn and aged, with small closed tear to second leaf, but with text clear and complete. Ownership inscription on first page of 'Thos. Adam Esqr \| Alnwick Northumberland'. The respondents' case, signed in type by William...	History, Law	£85.00
Ray Bradbury [Ray Douglas Bradbury] (b.1920), American author of the classic science-fiction novel 'Fahrenheit 451' [Melissa Scott (b.1960)] Autograph inscription by Ray Bradbury on a fax ('FROM ZANA BRADBURY') of the 'FINAL VERSION' of his preface to Melissa Scott's 1993 novel 'Burning Bright', describing 'the genesis of FAHRENHEIT 451'. 4to, 13 pp on thirteen leaves, consisting of a covering title-page and with the preface itself making up the remaining twelve pages. Bradbury's inscription, in blue felt-tip pen, is on the title-page, with 'FINAL VERSION! \| FEB. 1993' above the title and 'Ray Bradbury \| SIGNED JAN. 5, 1994'...	Literature	£600.00
Viscount Palmerston, sometime Foreign Minister and Prime Minister Part of a Document Signed boldly "Palmerston", with subscription,addressed to 'Lieut.Col. F. Cockburn/ Care of/Sir G. Cockburn G.C.B./Admiralty' Part of a page, 20 x 12cm, foxed, mainly good condition. Surviving text as follows: "I have the honor to be \| Sir, \| Your most obedient Servant \| Palmerston". Subscription probably secretarial.	History	£28.00
Reverend Hibbert Newton (1817-1892), of St Michael's, Borough, Southwark [The Lant Street Ragged Schools and Sunday Schools] Autograph Letter Signed ('H. Newton') by the Reverend Hibbert Newton, of St Michael's, Lant Street, on the back of a [printed handbill for 'The Lant Street Ragged Schools' and 'Sunday Schools. \| (In the Lower and Upper Rooms of the same buildings.)' The handbill on the recto of the first leaf (headed 'The Lant Street Sunday Schools. \| (In the Lower and Upper Rooms of the same buildings.)') and verso of the second leaf (headed 'The Lant Street Ragged Schools \| For Boys and Girls, \| Borough, Southwark. (Established A.D. 1862, and continued in...	Education, Religion	£135.00